iHealthBeat: Special Audio Reports

Gary Capistrant of the American Telemedicine Association, Scott Cooper of CMS' Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, and Scott Simmons of the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine spoke with iHealthBeat about a new CMS rule that eases the process for the credentialing and privileging of telehealth practitioners.

Dick Stapleton, deputy director of HHS' Web Communications Division, Kathryn McDonald of Stanford University and Roger Harms of the Mayo Clinic spoke with iHealthBeat about how new federal government websites incorporated best practices from the private industry to better disseminate health information.

David Falkenstein of the Northern Virginia Community College, William Hersh of the Oregon Health and Science University, George Hickman of Albany Medical Center and Thomas Shlala of the Atlanta Technical College spoke with iHealthBeat about federal efforts to boost the country's supply of health IT professionals.

Speranza Avram of the California Health Information Partnership and Services Organization, Mat Kendall of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and Christy Rosenberg of the Community Clinics Health Network spoke with iHealthBeat about new developments for regional extension centers.

Carla Smith of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Lee Aase of the Mayo Clinic and Patricia Abbott of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing spoke with iHealthBeat about what attendees can expect at this year's HIMSS conference in Orlando, Fla.

Claudia Williams of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Jonah Frohlich, managing director of Manatt Health Solutions, Marc Overhage, CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, and Micky Tripathi, CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, spoke with iHealthBeat about a new health information exchange grant program.

Brian Ahier of Oregon's Health Information Technology Oversight Council, Ralf-Gordon Jahns of research2guidance and Peter Waegemann of mHealth Initiative spoke with iHealthBeat about the growing popularity of mobile health.

Tara Lagu of Tufts University, Elizabeth McGlynn of RAND Health and Karsten Vagner of ZocDoc.com spoke with iHealthBeat about why few consumers are using hospital and physician rating websites.

Karen Bell of CCHIT, Maclynn Brinton of InfoGard Laboratories, Rik Drummond of the Drummond Group, Zubin Emsley of ChartLogic and Girish Navani of eClinicalWorks spoke with iHealthBeat about the certification program.

During the recent Health 2.0 conference, Jennifer Lieberman and Sean Chai of Kaiser Permanente's Garfield Center spoke with iHealthBeat about how changes in technology have led to new ideas about hospital design.

Ted Epperly of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Sherilyn Pruitt of HHS' Office for the Advancement of Telehealth and Dylan Roby of UCLA's School of Public Health discuss federal funding aimed at supporting rural health care.

Chantal Worzala of the American Hospital Association, Jason Mitchell of the American Academy of Family Physicians and Glen Tullman of Allscripts discuss the final rule on "meaningful use" with iHealthBeat.

Karen Bell of CCHIT, Crystal Kallem of AHIMA, David Muntz of CHIME and Robert Tennant of MGMA discuss the final rule on the temporary electronic health record certification program.

Patient advocate Dave deBronkart, Deven McGraw of the Center for Democracy and Technology's Health Privacy Project and Paul Tang of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation discussed what kind of role FDA should play in overseeing the safety of EHR systems.

Alisa Ray of the Certification Commission for Health IT, Michael Stearns of e-MDs and Steven Waldren of the American Academy of Family Physicians discuss how providers are choosing health IT vendors.